# Updating a scheduled post immediately posts it to the Fediverse

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/updating-a-scheduled-post-immediately-posts-it-to-the-fediverse/20438>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** fediverse, writeas\
**Created:** [February 1, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/updating-a-scheduled-post-immediately-posts-it-to-the-fediverse/20438 "2026-02-01T10:46:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![settima](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/settima/32/2979_2.png) [@settima](https://discuss.write.as/u/settima)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/updating-a-scheduled-post-immediately-posts-it-to-the-fediverse/20438/1 "2026-02-01T10:46:34Z")

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This is an [old bug](https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/821) but I’d like to bring it up once more because it makes write.as close to unusable for my purposes.

When I edit an existing post, reschedule it to a future date, and save, write.as posts to the Fediverse as “now \*” but timestamped on the scheduled date. The screenshot below is from February 1, 2026.

In the past it wouldn’t say “now \*” but the scheduled future date. This may be a change caused by a Mastodon update.

The way I want it to work is

1. write.as posts on the scheduled time/date;
2. my main Mastodon account picks this up via RSS;
3. and posts it to Mastodon;

Is there any hope for a fix in the foreseeable future? Or as a temporary solution, can I disable federating from write.as so these posts don’t show up until my main Mastodon account posts them via RSS?

 ![Screenshot 2026-02-01 at 11.36.55](https://discuss.write.as/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3417e142099bf79626d839ceb0f19d7506709ea4.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![harmonpa214](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/harmonpa214/32/5655_2.png) [@harmonpa214](https://discuss.write.as/u/harmonpa214)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/updating-a-scheduled-post-immediately-posts-it-to-the-fediverse/20438/2 "2026-02-01T14:56:25Z")

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Hey @settima , thanks for touching base here 🙂 I’m going to go ahead and forward this too Engineer Matt, and see if there’s a fix / debug in the close-future.

Regards,  
Peter

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**Author:** ![settima](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/settima/32/2979_2.png) [@settima](https://discuss.write.as/u/settima)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/updating-a-scheduled-post-immediately-posts-it-to-the-fediverse/20438/3 "2026-02-01T15:00:38Z")

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Much appreciated!